Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • For those that don’t know:
    It was a jump-scare flash game.

    The goal was to navigate through the maze with your mouse, without touching the walls, which gets harder near the end, likely resulting in you getting closer to and concentrating hard on the screen.

    Near the end they flashed a horror image and blasted a loud sound through your speakers.

    Personally, it didn’t make me flinch much though,
    but I guess it affected some others like OP.


  • If the fines regarding to it are in proportion with the revenue of the business, then it likely would make a lot of them think twice about doing so.

    I agree that it’s hard to enforce the rules,
    and that some would still ignore them.
    However updating the rules give the abused people a chance of getting justice/consolidation for their stolen work, and diminishes the chance of companies breaking the rules.

    It would not combat bit torrent (P2P) piracy.
    But that’s also not that important imo.
    Most pirates are rather poor folks,
    just trying to watch/play some content which they can’t afford, they make up for a rather neglible amount of the profit that can be had.

    However it would combat billion dollar companies that would use pirated content to train LLMs to sell further. All they need is x1 internal whistleblower about doing so, and they could be fined with an amount larger then the risk is worth.











  • uBlock Origin Filters to get rid of Copilot + AI feed bloat on Github
    uBlock Origin => Open the Dashboard => My Filters => Add:

    github.com##.copilotPreview__container
    github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat
    github.com##li.ActionListItem:has-text(Copilot)
    github.com##li.ActionList-sectionDivider:has-text(Copilot)
    github.com##li.TimelineItem:has-text(Copilot)
    github.com##div.pb-4:has-text(Copilot)
    github.com###copilot_free_global
    github.com###copilot-button-container
    github.com###blob-view-header-copilot-icon
    github.com##a[href*="/resources/articles/ai"]
    github.com##a[href*="/settings/copilot"]
    github.com##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
    github.blog##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
    github.blog##a[href*="/ai-and-ml"]
    github.blog##article.changelog-label-copilot
    github.blog##article.changelog-label-models
    
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(LLM)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(OpenAI)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(ChatGPT)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(GPT)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Llama)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Gemini)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Grok)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(DeepSeek)
    

    Also disable + block everything under: https://github.com/settings/copilot




  • My coping mechanism:
    Block/filter out the news!
    (Except for positive/uplifting news)

    It does wonders for your mental health!

    Most news sources are for-profit,
    and they did some research,
    apparently depressing news draws more attention / clicks, which results into more profit for them, but it isn’t good for your mental health.

    Other news sources just drive an hidden agenda, and aim to manipulate you to believe whatever the rich guy that owns the news site wants.

    Also, try to have fun while humanity is sliding down in the background!

    Whether you’re depressed or acknowledge and then ignore the facts, will have zero impact on the final outcome which will apply to the whole world.

    So might as well aim to be happy in the meantime :)